Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the 2020 iphone se or the iphone se 2
has been out for over three months now or 90 days or so
and this particular phone is one of the best phones apple has come out with in a
long time if you're looking for something that's
fairly inexpensive in the iphone world and so
this particular phone i used it for an entire week as my main
phone i normally use an iphone 11 pro max but the iphone 11 pro max may either
be too big for some people or just too expensive and that's usually
the case when someone's looking for an iphone se
so this phone ranges from 399 to 549 and you can get 64 128 or 256 gigabytes
this is the 128 gigabyte model so this is more than enough storage for most
people and after using it for a few months i
find that honestly if apple offered that size in the more expensive phones
that's probably what i would get storage wise does not seem to be an issue for me
and you'll see i'm only using 48 gigabytes or so of my 128 gigabytes of
storage so that it's more than enough for most
people and you have this option of 64 if that's too much for you but you can't
upgrade it later on now this particular design is great for
a lot of people that don't want face id or just want to stick with
touch id so maybe you're coming from an iphone 6
such as this one or maybe even an iphone 7 you can move
over to an iphone se keep the same form factor
but then move over your cases as well because they're the same dimension
so if you have a bunch of cases for the iphone 7 or 8 you'll be able to use them
on the iphone se they're very similar in size and
everything else and so that part's great so maybe you have 20 different cases
maybe you bought some from apple some off amazon or maybe you have just one
you could just move it over and again the design is classic and it's
great and just like the first iphone sc they brought back the iphone 5 and 5s
design they've brought back the iphone 6 design
and then just modernized it with the latest features
and so this particular phone not only has your regular sim card here in the
side but also has an e sim so you can use it
with dual sim if you have that option in your country or maybe you just want
different carriers or maybe you're traveling through
different areas they have different carriers you can switch
that way so that parts great so i know this phone based off its price and size
is great for a lot of people and after using it for a few months this
is actually my go-to phone as a backup so i have my 11 pro max but the great
thing about this is it's compact size it's easy to throw in
a bag it's easy to carry around and it's super light now after using this for a
few months it's held up really well i don't have any scratches on it or
anything that i can tell under bright light and this just gets
tossed into a backpack so that i can use it of course it's in a pocket that's
protected but it's held up well i don't have any
scratches or dents on it anywhere and so it seems to be pretty durable
also this has ip67 certification so that means
in this case that it can handle about a meter of water for
up to 30 minutes or so now keep in mind that
apple does not warrant products that actually have been water damaged without
apple care and even if you do have apple care you
may have to pay a deductible in fact if you get water into the ports
and they notice that and you have a problem and your phone doesn't respond
well you'll still be responsible for paying that deductible so keep in mind
that's not waterproof if you want to take it into a
pool or something i would highly recommend putting it into
a waterproof case for example and i'm speaking from experience here i've
dropped a phone into water it got damaged apple made me
pay the deductible to get it replaced so just keep that in mind now it's
display may be a downside for some people because it's an lcd
but for me that's actually an upside because it doesn't have pwm
the display is never flickering to control brightness so whether you're
going super bright or super dim it's not going to flicker
at all because these lcds don't do that so in order to control brightness on say
an 11 pro max for example it has to flicker that
display and that can cause a lot of people headaches if you're sensitive to
light and it's about 1 in 10 people have that
so there's no pwm it doesn't flicker the display
but you do get p3 wide color and it's a 4.7 inch
1334 by 750 pixels with 326 pixels per inch so yes it is a little bit smaller
but if you're going into something say youtube video and maybe you're trying to
figure out what particular phone to choose and you
happen to go to one of my videos you'll see that you can play it
in widescreen which it won't fit the screen because it's sort of optimized
for the newer phones but you do have up to 1080p now i
wouldn't expect 4k because the resolution isn't 4k
so it will scale to whatever resolution you select but that will scale to the
display so you'll have that option and the
speakers are nice and loud as well
and so the speakers are nice and loud they've got a nice
wide stereo sound and the display is great as far as lcds are concerned it's
got great viewing angles and it's what you expect from any iphone as far as
that goes well as far as speed this has the a13 bionic cpu
with three gigabytes of ram that means you're going to get the same performance
out of the cpu as the latest much more expensive 11 pro and 11 pro
max but you've got three gigabytes of ram to
do whatever you need and that seems to be enough for this particular
phone you can play games nice and fast you'll see i had minecraft
open so we'll wait for it to load it only takes a second to resume
and we're back in so it works great you've got great frame rates so if you
are playing minecraft or pubg or fortnite or any of those
expect great frame rates no issue there and
also you should have longevity with this because of that chipset
you're going to get the same updates basically that the 11 pro does for years
to come so that means ios 14 15 16
usually about five years of support now of course it can play games like i've
shown but everything else is just super fast
and buttery smooth and i think that's because you have a lower resolution
but that super fast cpu that's also pushing a lot more pixels in an 11
pro for example or an 11 pro max so on an iphone se
with far fewer pixels the experience is just
buttery smooth all the time no matter what you're doing so it doesn't really
matter what you're in what you're doing in the camera included
the camera can actually do 4k 60 video so it's got a really decent
12 megapixel camera with an f 1.8 aperture but does 4k 60 video
and in fact i recorded my entire iphone se review a couple months ago
with an iphone se so that should give you an idea of what it's capable of
but i wanted to show you a few more pictures just so you can see what it's
capable of as well is a photo camera so low light is pretty good it's not as
good as say the latest cameras with all of the different modes but this
particular phone is better than almost anything out there
other than say maybe an iphone 11 that has a few extra features but 4k 60
a lot of less expensive android phones can't do that
so it's pretty impressive to see it kind of record this without breaking a sweat
now let's take a look at some of the photos i've taken
with this camera and let me know what you think about them in the comments
below
now as far as battery life that's one of the disadvantages of this phone
given its smaller size it has a smaller battery in it and that smaller battery
lasts about five and a half to six hours as far as screen on time is concerned
for most people when this was my main phone that seemed
to be about the average i was getting with 100 battery health so as long as
you have a maximum capacity of battery health no issues there
five and a half to six hours now what i did do because i'm not using this full
time right now is i reached out to a bunch of you
on discord telegram and twitter and all of you said that you were
getting about five and a half hours to six
hours of screed on time in fact here's a screenshot from
saga of techworks so he's another channel if you haven't checked him out
be sure to check him out in the description
also omar and matty sent me their screen on times as well so you'll see
about five and five and a half to six hours if you're not charging it
throughout the day of course if you plug it in maybe you're
in a car and you're plugging it in of course you're going to get more than
that because you're going to be bumping that battery back up a little bit more
now as far as everything else this is a highly recommended phone i think it will
hold up really well for years to come and the only thing i might be curious
about waiting for is that new iphone 12 5.4 inch if you're
looking for a smaller phone expect this this is a prototype or a
unit that's used to make cases for but it's got this
squared off edge on the side so if that's something that interests you
you may want to wait for that and we don't know the price of it yet so the
price may be much more than what we have with
the iphone se or it could be the same and apple could
get rid of the iphone se i highly doubt that's likely but
you never know what apple's going to do but keep in mind
that the iphone se is affordable you'll be able to get it at discounts in many
different places where it's available and if you don't it's still pretty
reasonable as well other than that though i highly recommend this phone
especially at its price anyone looking for a budget phone that
wants a smaller iphone you only do have three colors you have
this product red you have white and black so you only
have those three colors but other than that most people put
skins on them or put cases on them so i would keep that in mind no problems
there and one other thing is you don't get 3d
touch you get haptic touch you get all the features of 3d touch
but it's the same sort of thing that you get with the 11 pro and the 11 pro max
there's no pressure sensitive layer you just press and hold but that doesn't
really matter because it seems like apple's done away with that with all
their new products but if you have anything else to say
about this particular device let me know in the comments below and if you'd like
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time
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